Foreign News: Low-down on Bonnet

Most official German publications have tried to pin war guilt largely on
Great Britain. Last week an official statement was issued in Berlin
which helped along this favorite Nazi thesis but which also recounted
the tricky diplomacy of Georges Bonnet, French Foreign Minister for
the 18 crucial months before war's outbreak.

In a dozen French governments 50-year-old Georges Bonnet has held such
Cabinet posts as Minister of Pensions, Commerce, Public Works, Posts &
Telegraph, Finance. He was also once sent as French Ambassador to
Washington, where he was scheduled to talk about a compromise on...